Patents by Inventor Tom (Liang-Yu) Chi

Tom (Liang-Yu) Chi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20090144264
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for integrating third-party information, such as third-party rating information, over the search results. The integrated third-party information in search results provides users additional information to determine which search results to click on for more details. In one embodiment, the methods and systems allow users to choose which third-party data sources to include (or overlay) in their search results. Whenever a user issues a search request to a search engine, which returns search results that correspond to relevant third-party overlay data, the search engine will return a list of the search results integrated with the corresponded third-party data. The integrated third-party information augments the titles, abstracts and link descriptions of search results to help the user determine which search results in the list are relevant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Vik Singh, Eckart Walther, Jeff Bonforte, Amit Kumar, Tom (Liang-Yu) Chi